Bryan Behrenshausen (he/him)

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Durham, NC

Bryan formerly managed the Open Organization section of Opensource.com, which features stories about the ways open values and principles are changing how we think about organizational culture and design. He's worked on Opensource.com since 2011. Find him online as semioticrobotic.

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Authored Content

Teaching teachers to teach open source

Teaching students to participate in open source communities can be difficult. Teaching teachers to teach students to participate in open source communities can be even more…

Buffer sees clear benefits to transparent employee salary policy

At social media startup Buffer, a single leadership decision eliminated salary negotiation for new employees, preempted gender-based salary discrimination, and prompted a…

How can open soruce help solve a huge problem?

Good leaders know what economics can’t explain about open source

Last week, I lucked into 30 minutes on the phone with one of my favorite people: author, speaker, blogger, and activist Cory Doctorow. Our conversation ran the gamut—from open…

Cory Doctorow on influencing the future instead of predicting it

Cory Doctorow is good with words. He just prefers stringing them into sentences, not subroutines. "I was a software developer," he says. "I'm much better at writing science…

You won't believe how Buzzfeed handles change management

When we're designing our organizations, why don't we show the same level of care we have for the products we want those organizations to generate? That's the question Cap…

Authored Comments

bbehrens

11 Feb 2019

The challenges of decoding open source DNA

A great question! And I get the sense you're not the only one thinking about the unique challenges to working openly that finance functions might present. I recently read a good take on this from Red Hat CFO Eric Shander. Perhaps it may be useful to you.

bbehrens

24 Dec 2018

Go on an adventure in your Linux terminal

Congratulations on an awesome series. I really did look forward to checking it out every day.